Messen er
Oregon State University Libraries
Volume 5, Number 1
Winter, 1990
William Jasper Kerr library
Expansion Project Team Organization
Team Coordinator
J. Kennison
library Building Committee
M. George, Chairman
Membership Consists of library staff,
OSU faculty, local community residents
C. Span ier, ex officio
Facilities Planning Committee
J. Koch, Chairman
Standing University committee; Consists
of OSU faculty and administrators
E. Coate, ex officio
Volunteer Fund Raising
Steering Committee
R. Lundeen, Chairman
Membership by invitation extended from
R. Lundeen and I. Byrne
J. Byrne, ex officio
Professional Fund Raising
Implementation Committee
L. Patterson, Chairman
OSU and unit fund raisers, deans,
directors, and faculty as appropriate
L. Spruill, ex officio
Committee Responsibilities
library Building Committee: Responsible for the presentation of programmatic issues to be remedied by the expansion of the building, space relationships within the
proposed structure, full utilization of the entire library lexisting and newl when construction is completed.
Facilities Planning Committee: Responsible for creating proper documentation (for submittal to the Chancellor's office) required to hire the project architect; working
closely with the Library Building Committee regarding space relationships in the new building; assisting in the selection of the project architect; receiving data regarding,
and ultimately deciding on, the placement of the building.
Volunteer Fund Raising Steering Committee: Responsible for identifying and rating potential major donors; developing campaign strategies and goals for major donor
gifts; discussing, endorsing, and/or modifying additional strategies presented by the Professional Fund Raising Implementation Committee.
Professional Fund Raising Implementation Committee: Responsible for implementing the strategies developed by the Volunteer Fund Raising Steering Committee;
providing staff support to the steering committee; developing the goals and time lines for the overall campaign; implementing and monitoring the total fund raising effort.
Almost 30 years after its approval,
Phase Three of the Will jam Jasper Kerr
Library construction project is now under
way. The entire library building project
was approved by the Oregon State System
of Higher Education Building Committee in
1961. The plans called for a three-staged
construction program totaling 258,000
square feet with a seating capacity for
3,500 users.
Phase One of the program included four
floors with Phase Two providing two
additional floors. Phase One was completed in 1963 with 128,230 square feet to
house 590,000 volumes and seat 1,600
users.
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Phase Two, the addition of floors five
and six, was completed in 1971 and
included 54,000 square feet, bringing the
building total to 182,230 square feet, and
expanding the seating capacity to 2,600
and the number of volumes to 750,000.
The growth of the University as a major
national research institution, its increased
student body, and the advancement of
technology have stretched Kerr Library
beyond its ability to meet the demands for
services. To accommodate gradual
expansion to more than 1,100,000
volumes, the seating capacity has been
reduced to 1,950 and, since 1979,
200,000 volumes have been stored in a
facility at Adair Village.
In response to the critical need for additional space, the Kerr Library Building
Committee consisting of members of the
OSU faculty and administration, Friends of
the Library Board, students, and community representatives, drafted a program
statement in the summer of 1988. The
Building Committee recommended that the
new addition be designed for growth over
a twenty year period; that consideration be
given to a full range of information
sources, including print and non-print
formats; that OSU continue its policy of
maintaining one centralized library, but
allow for service points elsewhere on
campus; and that certain other campus
service units be considered for inclusion in
the expanded library building. The
committee also developed a priority listing
for such inclusions.
On the basis of the need presented by
the Building Committee, the Oregon State
Legislature in its most recent session
allocated $186,000 for library expansion
planning. The construction project
tentatively calls for 140,000 square feet of
new construction and 40,000 square feet
of renovation to the existing building,
allowing for both increased stacks and
seating capacity. The target date for
completion of the new construction is the
summer of 1994.
The total cost of the project will be at
least $27,000,000. Of this amount,
$9,000,000 must be raised from private
sources. This will be the largest single fund
raising project in the University's history.
To prepare for this positive challenge,
Robert Lundeen, Chairman of the Board of
Tektronix and an OSU alum, has agreed to
head the volunteer steering committee
which will direct the public fund raising
effort. In addition, Mr. Lundeen and his
wife Betty, have pledged $600,000 toward
the project if a similar total amount is
pledged by other individuals.
The Lundeen match money will release
an additional $600,000 from the Legislature as soon as the match goal is reached.
This combination of funding will provide
almost $2,000,000 toward the needed
$9,000,000.
In response to meeting the needed
$600,000 to match the Lundeens' challenge, the Kerr Friends of the Library Board
voted to apply all of the funds raised by the
Friends this year toward the challenge
match. This means that every dollar
donated to the project by a Friend will
result in three dollars to the building fund.
This is a very exciting time in the proud
history of library services at OSU. We are
going to need a lot of help, not only with
donated dollars but also with volunteers.
Consider carefully what you can do to help.
Dr. Melvin George
From the Director
Shortly before this issue of the Messenger went to press, the library suffered a
great loss. Marilyn Potts-Gum, librarian at
the Mark 0. Hatfield Marine Science
Center, died of cancer on Saturday, December 2. Marilyn was a great librarian, responsible in many ways for the strength of
the library program at the Marine Science
Center. So many of her professional colleagues and friends have called to talk
about her contributions to librarianship
and her strengths as a friend.
What was it about Marilyn that made
her a great librarian? In fact, what do we
mean by the phrase "great librarian"?
When I think about what made Marilyn so
successful at the Marine Science Center, I
think first of her enthusiastic promotion of
information and library service. There's a
curious phenomenon that occurs repeatedly in librarianship. Potential users often
don't seem to expect much from libraries.
Librarians, on the other hand, know the
wealth of information they can lay their
hands on and the ways in which that
information will improve the user's
research or instruction. This discrepancy of
expectation often turns librarians into
zealous evangelists for library service.
Marilyn was one such evangelist.
Early in her career at the Marine
Science Center, Marilyn's supervisor came
upon her nearly in tears. There wasn't
enough to do, Marilyn said, and nobody
had visited the library for hours. Marilyn
soon set out from the library visiting
scholars in their offices and laboratories.
Before long, the library had become one of
the busiest places at the Center. Today,
everyone on the Center staff assunies that a
visit to the library is an essential ingredient
in any research project or teaching activity.
Library users recognized that Marilyn and
her staff cared about their projects and that
a library visit would make research or
teaching stronger and better. Marilyn
taught her colleagues to expect something
of her and the library she served.
A second characteristic of the "great
librarian" is the ability to define the
professionin a sense, to "make it up as
you go along." Marilyn was a successful
librarian because she had that ability. She
contributed to the development of library
practice in an active way. When researchers came to her with tough questions,
sometimes dealing with concepts she
didn't understand, she took the trouble to
understand the searcher's needs and to
learn something about the searcher's field.
When tried and tested methods seemed
too cumbersome or when they were not
useful in a library with minimal staff and
maximal expectations, Marilyn learned
about automation and new technologies.
She wasn't afraid to expect things of her
colleagues in the main library and she
assumed they would respond to her
clients' needs with the same intensity she
brought to their service. Marilyn worked to
organize an international association of
marine science librarians to share information, experiment with new service patterns
and create a network to support one
another's efforts.
Finally, a "great librarian" realizes that
her mission is to serve the interests of
people rather than those of inanimate collections, complicated automated systems,
or lengthy policy statements. Marilyn knew
that it was her responsibility to make the
decisions which would enable the
researcher or the teacher to do a better job.
If that meant stretching a rule here or
granting a special privilege there, she was
ready to risk it, even though she might be
called upon to defend her decision later in
the face of criticism for granting special
privileges or playing favorites. Most of all,
Marilyn knew how to make people have
fun in the research process. She knew that
the search for just the right information is
an invigorating process and that such a
search is the centerpoint of a university or
marine science center dedicated to the
creation of new knowledge. Marilyn
insisted that the new library at the Marine
Science Center should reflect the library's
centrality in that stimulating search. The
building will be focused on a peopleoriented space with a fireplace and lounge
where research and teaching staff can
share their experience in the pursuit of
knowledge.
We in the libraries of Oregon State
University will miss Marilyn Potts-Gum,
but we'll carry with us her sense of
adventure and her dedication to helping
those around us to expect something
important from libraries. Her memory will
forever serve us as we strive, in our own
way, to be good, perhaps great, librarians.
Resource Sharing
A statewide courier system similar to
the one operating in Washington, will
begin providing service to selected Oregon
drop sites in the first part of 1990. At a
November 6, 1 989, meeting of interested
participants, the group assembled decided
to move ahead with the implementation of
the courier system. Almost forty Oregon
librarians from around the state attended
the meeting hosted by the Document
Delivery Subcommittee of the Statewide
Collection Development Steering Committee and held at Oregon State University.
Fifteen libraries have already committed
themselves to serve as drop sites: Jackson
County/Southern Oregon State College,
Rogue Community College, Eugene Public
Library, University of Oregon Library,
Oregon State University Library, Oregon
State Library, Clackamas County Libraries,
Washington County Libraries, Multnomah
County Libraries, Douglas County Libraries, Oregon Institute of Technology,
Linfield College, Deschutes County
Library, Eastern Oregon State College, and
Blue Mountain Community College. The
purpose of the courier system will be to
support resource sharing within the state.
Many drop sites will serve as distribution points for other libraries. In some
cases, existing local delivery systems will
be used to transport materials from the
drop site to individual sub-drop libraries.
In other cases, local delivery systems will
have to be formed to allow additional
libraries to participate. Because of population distribution in the state, some libraries
will continue to be served by mail only.
Michael Crose, the administrator of the
Washington courier system, explained at
the meeting how the process works. The
Washington state contractor is Data Express, which picks up mailing bags labeled
by drop site and delivers them to other
designated drop sites within 24 to 48
hours. Charges are allocated by drop sites;
the charge per drop site in Washington is
$156 a month. Crose believes that the
charges in Oregon will be comparable.
When the Oregon portion of the system is
operating smoothly, it will be joined with
the Washington system.
The need for resource sharing in the
Pacific Northwest is acute. The universe of
materials required to support research and
instruction in the academic disciplines
represented at Oregon State University, for
example, continues to expand. In the U.S.
alone, 80,000 books on academic topics
are published each year; OSU will buy
about 30,000 of these. But collections
must reflect international scholarly
production also. No single institution can
purchase all relevant materials; institutions
mLlst rely on each other's collections to
meet local needs. A courier system makes
resource sharing more effective because
materials reach users more quickly.
The OSU Libraries' brief mission
statement is "Access to Information is our
Number One Priority." An effective courier
;ystem among Oregon libraries will make
access to one another's collections an
efficient way to serve information requirements. While publication ownership in
local libraries is essential to meeting heavy
local demand and contributing to overall
coverage inside the state, this access will
allow more comprehensive service.
Gloriana St. Clair
Oregon State University
Guide to Influential Books
Harvard University, in commemoration
of its 350th anniversary, published The
Harvard Guide to Influential Books. The
editors asked more than 100 prominent
Harvard faculty members and administrators to name and, if so inclined, briefly to
reflect upon the four or five books that had
most influence in their lives and careers.
We have asked the same of the faculty
at Oregon State University (albeit on a
slightly smaller scale). Herewith is the last
installment of the results. We hope you
enjoy discovering that which has influenced the OSU scholarly community.
Melvin R. George
,,--Director of Libraries
i3ettelheim, Bruno. The Uses of Enchantment: the Meaning and Importance of Fairy
Tales.
New York: Knopf, 1976.
Books have played a significant part in
my life. Sometimes they have revealed a
world to me that I didn't know existed.
Such were the stacks of magazines from
the early part of the century which my
grandmother stored in her attic and which I
pored over for hours as a child. The first
book I recall was a volume, long lost, of
fairy and folk tales with a light green cover
and beautiful pictures of princes and
princesses, distant lands "East of the Sun
and West of the Moon," and Aesop's wonderful animals. It wasn't until I came across
The Uses of Enchantment: the Meaning
and Importance of Fairy Tales by Bruno
Bettelheim that I began to understand what
held me so irresistibly to those tales and
how they had shaped my life.
Johnson, Osa. I Married Adventure.
New York: Morrow, 1940.
In grade school, I discovered the public
library, a jewel of a Carnegie building,
even then too small for the treasures it
held. The works of Osa Johnson, especially
Married AdventUre, tantalized me with
p.-' vorlds much like the lands in the fairy
tales, but these were real and could be
visited.
Manfred, Frederick Feikema. Green Earth.
New York: Crown, 1977.
Rolvaag, O.E. Giants in the Earth.
New York: Harper, 1927.
Sometimes a book rivets one's attention
for the way it helps us view ourselves,
sometimes to understand and appreciate
our common human experience. Such a
book, now out of print, was Green Earth by
Frederick Feikema Manfred, a story of
growing up in the Midwest. Another was
0. E. Rolvaag's Giants in the Earth which
helped me to understand something of the
strength and austerity of my Scandinavian
heritage as my progenitors battled the new
lands in Minnesota and the Dakotas.
Stegner, Wallace. Wolf Willow.
New York: Viking, 1962.
Stegner, Wallace. Crossing to Safety.
New York: Random House, 1987.
As an adult, the works of Wallace
Stegner have caught my attention, particularly Stegner's childhood reminiscence,
Wolf Willow, and more recently his
astonishing revelation of the aging process
in Crossing to Safety.
Ranganathan, S. R. The Five Laws of
Library Science.
Greenwich, Connecticut: Asia House,
1963.
In library school I read S. R.
Ranganathan's The Five Laws of Library
Science which pretty much summarizes
the career to which I'm dedicated.
Kenhardt, Dorothy. Pat the Bunny.
New York: Western Publishing, 1942.
Brown, Margaret Wise. Goodnight Moon.
New York: Harper, 1947.
Keat, Ezra Jack. Snowy Day.
New York: Penguin, 1962.
Nothing in life has given me as much
pleasure as being a father. My daughters'
early lives are still linked in my mind with
the books we all read together, especially
Dorothy Kenhardt's Pat the Bunny,
Margaret Wise Brown's Goodnight Moon,
and Ezra Jack Keat's Snowy Day.
Morris, Edmund. The Rise of Theodore
Roosevelt.
New York: Coward, McCann, and
Geoghegan, 1979.
Hassler, Jon. Staggerford.
New York: Atheneum, 1977.
Burns, Olive Ann. Cold Sassy Tree.
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1984.
It's a continuing pleasure to discover
new authors and subjects which have the
power to intrigue. I've particularly enjoyed
Edmund Morris' wonderful biography of
the young Teddy Roosevelt, The Rise of
Theodore Roosevelt. I was pleased to
discover the works of a new Minnesota
writer, Jon Hassler, who locates his
characters close to my home town. His
novels include Staggerford, Simon's Night,
and Grand Opening. Recently, I especially
enjoyed Olive Ann Burns' Cold Sassy Tree.
Ralph E. McNees
Publications Director
Forest Research Laboratory
Dante, Alighieri. Divine Comedy.
New York: Macmillan, 1931.
Dante's Commedianot only because
of its complex and awesome structure but
also because the Purgatorio confirmed my
hunch that individuals differ in their stages
of awareness and that, ultimately, some
have no choice but to ascend.
The Bible Book of Psalms.
The Book of Psalmsbecause several of
them taught me that the shape of an art
work reflects that which is perennially true.
Aeschylus. Oresteia.
London: Loeb Classical Library, 1926.
Oresteiawhich, among many other
things, is a portrayal of the evolution of the
human spirit.
Shakespeare, William. The Tragedy of King
Lear.
New York: Ginn & Co., 1940.
King Learfrom which I learned that
wretchedness can purify.
H. J. Mack
Professor
Department of Horticulture
The Bible.
Without doubt, the book that has been
most influential in my own life. It has been
the "textbook" for my gaining insight and
knowledge of my relationship to God
through Jesus Christ and my relationship to
other people. It also answers the questions
who am I? why am I here? and where am I
going?
Everest, F. A. Modern Science and
Christian Faith.
Wheaton, Illinois: Van Kampen Press,
1957.
Another book that was very helpful to
me as I completed my graduate studies and
began my professional career. Part of the
premise set forth in this hook is that God is
the author of the Bible (Christian faith) and
of nature (science) so that there should be
no real conflict between science and the
scriptures, properly interpreted. This has
helped me to have a better perspective in
my research and teaching, review of
scientific literature, and Bible study.
Joan H. Martin
Extension Agent
Klamath County
The Bible.
Frankel, Viktor. Man's Search for Meaning:
An Introduction to Logotherapy.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1970.
Ellis, Albert. Guide to Rational Living.
North Hollywood, California: Wilshire
Book Co., 1975.
A Lifetime's Reading: The World's 500
Asleit, Don. Clutter's Last Stand: it's time
to de-junk your life!
Cincinnati, Ohio: Writer's Digest Books,
1984.
Clifford S. Mead
Head of Special Collections
Kerr Library
Too much depends upon the length of
the list one sets out to compile. I therefore
list only a very few works that seemed to
me when I read them to have an extra
dimension of resonance.
Pynchon, Thomas. Gravity's Rainbow.
New York: Viking, 1973.
Gaddis, William. JR.
New York: Knopf, 1975.
Hesse, Hermann. The Glass Bead Game.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston,
1969.
Jaeger, Werner. Paideia: The Ideals of
Greek Culture. (3 vols.)
London: Oxford University Press, 1939-44.
Malraux, Andre. Voices of Silence.
New York: Doubleday, 1953.
Mumford, Lewis. Technics and
Civilization. (4 vols.)
New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1934-51.
Salter, James. Light Years.
New York: Paris Review, 1976.
Veblen, Thorstein. The Theory of the
Leisure Class.
New York: Macmillan, 1899.
Weil, Simone. The Need for Roots.
New York: Putnam, 1952.
Weber, Max. Essays in Sociology.
London: Oxford University Press, 1946.
For those who take delight in lists such
as these, may I take this opportunity to
suggest some other sources than the
aforementioned Harvard Guide to Influential Books.
Rediscoveries: Informal Essays in Which
Well-known Novelists Rediscover Neglected Works of Fiction by One of Their
Favorites.
New York: Crown, 1971.
Rediscoveries II: Important Writers Select
Their Favorite Works of Neglected Fiction.
New York: Carroll and Graff, 1988.
Writer's Choice: A Library of Rediscoveries.
Reston, Virginia: Reston, 1983.
A Reader's Delight.
Hanover, Massachusetts: University Press
of New England, 1988.
Greatest Books.
Walker, Alice. The Color Purple.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
New York: Stein and Day, 1983.
1982.
John E. Morris
Brown, Rita Mae. Southern Discomfort.
New York: Harper & Row, 1982.
Professor
Department of Zoology
Sheehy, Gail. Passages.
Malthus, T. R. Essay on Population.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1914.
This had an impact on my thinking. It
was read in my later, more "aware" years
as a college undergraduate. This strongly
impressed on me the importance of natural
and man-made controls on population for
survival of the species.
New York: Dutton, 1976.
Plait, John Rader. "Strong Influence."
Science 146 (1964): 347-53.
Later in graduate school it was an
article that I read at a critical time when
my research had reached a conceptual
block. His paper suggested to me a much
more efficient way of thinking about
experiments and has continued to be a
valuable tool.
The Bible.
Nancy Powell
Research Division
Library
Freidan, Betty. The Feminine Mystique.
New York: Norton, 1963.
French, Marilyn. The Women's Room.
New York: Summit Books, 1977.
Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice.
London: T. Egerton, 1831.
-favorite to read over and over
Adams, Richard. Watership Down.
New York: Macmillan, 1974.
-man's inhumanity to man theme
Anonymous Go Ask Alice.
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: PrenticeHall, 1971.
-social problems/consciousness
Greenburg, Joanne. I Never Promised You
a Rose Garden.
New York: Holt, Rinehart, & Winston,
1964.
Mother Goose, Nursery Rhymes.
London: Heinemann, 1969.
-glory of language
Orwell, George. 1984.
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1949.
-social commentary
Fairbaine, Ann. Five Smooth Stones.
New York: Crown Publishers, 1966.
-challenged my racial bias-previously
unknown to me!
Griffin, John. Black Like Me.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1961.
Toffler, Alvin. Future Shock.
New York: Random House, 1970.
Neff, Pauline. Tough Love.
Nashville: Abingdon, 1982
Roman A. Schmitt
Professor of Chemistry
Radiation Center
Goldschmidt, V. M. Geochemistry.
Oxford: C!arendon Press, 1954.
Mason, Brian Harold. Meteorites.
New York: Wiley, 1962.
Friedlander, et al. Nuclear and Radiochemistry.
New York: Wiley, 1955.
Steven H. Strauss
Assistant Professor
Department of Forest Science
Lewontin, R. C. The Genetic Basis of
Evolutionary Change.
New York: Columbia University Press,
1974.
Bormann, F. Herbert, and Gene Likens.
Pattern and Process in a Forested Ecosystem.
New York: Springer-Verlag, 1979.
Solbrig, Otto 1. Topics in Plant Population
Biology.
New York: Columbia University Press,
1979.
Mayr, Ernst. The Growth of Biological
Thought.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: BelknapHarvard University Press, 1982.
William F. Strong
Speech Communication
Garcia Márquez, Gabriel. One Hundred
Years of Solitude.
New York: Harper & Row, 1970.
Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
New York: C. L. Webster, 1885.
Twain, Mark. Letters from the Earth.
New York: Harper & Row, 1962.
Weaver, Richard. The Ethics of Rhetoric.
Chicago: H. Regnery Co., 1953.
McMurtry, Larry. Lonesome Dove.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985.
God.
Harmonsworth: Penguin Books, 1946.
As a high school student, I read this
biography and was inspired to look at the
field of home economics as a career
choice. This career offered a way to utilize
"that considerable body of useful knowledge now lying on shelves" in the "utilization of all resources of modern science to
improve the home life." I expect that her
role as a pioneer woman in science also
appealed. She was the first woman
admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and the first woman to receive
a degree (8.5. in Chemistry in 1873). She
became a leader in the public health
movement and later was one of the
founders and first president of the American Home Economics Association. A role
model indeed, not in person but via this
biography.
Roger Weaver
Irma Wright
Professor
Department of English
Foreign Study Adviser
International Education
Agee, James. Let Us Now Praise Famous
Men.
Liewellyn, Richard. How Green Was My
Deane Watkins
Reference Division
Library
Rand, Ayn. Atlas Shrugged.
New York: Random House, 1957.
Alcott, Louisa May. An Old-Fashioned
Girl.
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1878.
Hayakawa, Samuel I. Language in Thought
and Action.
Madison, Wisconsin: College Typing,
1939.
Shaw, Bernard. The Black Girl in Search of
Boston: Houghton Muffin, 1941.
As reread my journals I realized my
debt especially to James Agee's Let Us
Now Praise Famous Men, for the impact its
form and values made. It validated my
impression as a poet that the lyrical beauty
and wonder that informs the commonplace
,.- exists truly for us and is waiting always
there for us to discover it.
.
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Valley.
New York: Macmillan Co., 1943.
A deeply moving and finely crafted
work on life as manifested through the day
to day existence of a Welsh family whose
strength of spirit, faith, endurance, and
love wove through every passage, every
portrait.
McLuhan, Marshall. The Medium is the
Message.
The Bible.
The King James Version was always
there and I'm sure it shaped a sense of
abundance and praise.
Forster, Edward Morgan. Howard's End.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1910.
EM. Forster's novel Howard's End gave
me most of my values about loyalty and
friendship.
Dante, Alighieri. Divine Comedy.
New York: Macmillan, 1931.
Durrell, Lawrence. Alexandria Quartet.
New York: Dutton, 1961.
Finally Divine Comedy and Alexandria
Quartet showed me the multilayered levels
possible in a single unified work.
Mariol Wogaman
Assistant Head, Reference Division
Library
Lewis, C. S. The Problem of Pain.
New York: Macmillan, 1940.
Margy Woodburn
Professor
Head, Department of Foods & Nutrition
Hunt, Caroline L. The Life of Ellen H.
Richards.
Washington, D. C.: American Home
Economics Association, 1942.
New York: Random House, 1 967.
A short, multi-media exposition on and
description of the medium being the
message (which contrasts with the idea of
the end justifying the means), this work has
not been/cannot be taken seriously by our
culture (yet) because it flies in the face of
our glitzy, hyped, extroverted modus
operendi.
Heisenberg, Werner. Physics and Beyond:
Encounters and Conversations.
New York: Harper & Row, 1971.
A well-conceived, clearly articulated
introduction to the complexity, subtlety,
and beauty of the unknown and
humankind's obsession with trying to make
sense of it (from a western, linear, rationalistic perspective).
Terkel, Studs. Working.
New York: Pantheon Books, 1974.
Powerful because of its honesty which
is radical departure from the cultural
dishonesty we are conditioned to accept
and to perpetuate.
Various writings of: A. J. Muste, Dorothy
Day, John Woolman, George Fox, Ann
Lee, Thomas Merton, Alan Watts, Lao Tzu,
Talmudic scholars; Catholic scholars; Zen
practitioners:
They provided this reader with other
people's observations and reeminations on
what life is about, why it exists at all, what
is meaningful, how it is to be lived, and
many rock bottom basic issues.
The above works have been influential
in my life and, consequently, shape my
approach to everything, including career.
For me, a truly profound work could not
be career-specific, but would have to
touch me on a deeper, personal level.
Marvin M. Young
Extension Agent
Deschutes County
The Bible.
My choice is the Holy Bible. All other
books I have read pale in comparison to
the wisdom of this Book of books.
I have spent 30 years with OSU
Extension Service. One of the major
requirements of this position involves
working with and for others. The Bible has
provided excellent direction on the way
one person should relate to others. To be
effective on the community scene requires
a reputation of honesty, dependability, and
competence, which in turn develops a
measure of respect. The Bible has provided
guidelines on the virtues of truthfulness
and doing the best you can.
Every person, no matter what his or her
position in life, can expect to pass through
good times and periods of turmoil. The
Bible has offered comfort to me when I am
weary and frustrated, encouragement when
I have been discouraged, and a humbling
admonishment when things have gone
well and there has been the temptation to
allow personal pride to take over. There
have been other books that have had a
momentary impact, but none so far
reaching and enduring as the Holy
Scriptures contained in the Bible.
Russell C. Youmans
Director, Western Rural Development
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Reich, Robert. The Next American
Frontier.
New York: Times Books, 1983.
Ostrom, Vincent. The Intellectual Crisis in
American Public Administration.
Alabama: University of Alabama Press,
1973.
Olson, Mancur. The Logic of Collective
Action; Public Goods & the Theory of
Groups.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard
University Press, 1965.
Cox, Harvey G. The Secular City: Secularization and Urbanization in Theological
Perspective.
London: SCM Press, 1966.
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